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  • Dinosaur Fact Frenzy!

    by Mathew J. Wedel ...
    Series series Fact Frenzy
    There's a DINOSAUR FACT FRENZY headed your way! Did you know that Velociraptors were about the same size as a turkey? Or that Incisivosaurus had big front teeth, like a beaver, that it used for cutting plants? Dozens of bite-size facts are paired with fun dinosaur images, welcoming in even the most reluctant readers. Whether kids are in the mood to browse or to devour a book from cover to cover, ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confronting Corruption, Building Accountability

    Lessons from the World of International Development Advising

    by L. Dumas, J. Wedel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The crisis that nearly brought the world's financial house down in 2008 demonstrated clearly that the global economy cannot work where there is widespread deception, corruption and lack of accountability. Corruption and lack of accountability are also key reasons why international development assistance so often fails to deliver on its promise. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Sauropod Dinosaurs

    Life in the Age of Giants

    by Mark Hallett, Mathew J. Wedel ...
    The best illustrated and most comprehensive book ever published on the largest land animals the world has ever known.From The Land Before Time to Jurassic Park, images of fantastically large, long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs have captured our imaginations. These are the sauropods: centerpieces of museums and gentle giants of the distant past. Imagine what it must have been like to crest a hill ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • The Global Food Economy

    The Battle for the Future of Farming

    by Tony Weis ...
    The Global Food Economy examines the human and ecological cost of what we eat.The current food economy is characterized by immense contradictions. Surplus 'food mountains', bountiful supermarkets, and rising levels of obesity stand in stark contrast to widespread hunger and malnutrition. Transnational companies dominate the market in food and benefit from subsidies, whilst farmers in developing ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Bones of Contention: Inside the Struggle to Unearth the Great Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Discovery

    by Leslie Anthony ...
    In 2007, a massive, concentrated deposit of dinosaur fossils, some of theoldest ever found, were discovered in the mountain ridges of northernBritish Columbia, near an old coal mining town. The site contained thelargest number of tyrannosaur teeth ever found with another species, anunfortunate lambeousaur who¹d been scavenged by a pack of hyena-likejuvenile predators millions of years ago. The ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Fast Fashion

    A Cut from Clothing Poverty with Exclusive New Content

    by Andrew Brooks ...
    Fast Fashion: A cut from Clothing Poverty marks the two-year anniversary of the disastrous collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013.Featuring a new introduction along with a chapter from the previously published Clothing Poverty: The hidden world of fast fashion and second-hand clothes, Andrew Brooks stitches together the events of the Rana Plaza tragedy with the hidden ... Read more

    $1.32 USD

  • Why Cooperate?

    The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

    by Scott Barrett ...
    Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided? Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Emerging Powers

    Globalisation, US Power and the Global North-South Divide

    by Ray Kiely ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book critically examines the argument that the Global South has risen in recent years, that its rise has intensified since the 2008 financial crisis, and that this in turn has hastened the decline of the West and the US in particular. Drawing on critical theories of international relations and development, Kiely puts the rise into context and shows how the factors that aided the rise of the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Identity Destabilised

    Living in an Overheated World

    Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Elisabeth Schober ...
    The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; out of sync, contradiction-ridden and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.This collection explores social identities in today’s ‘overheated’ world, seen from an anthropological perspective. The focus is on contradictions, tensions and paradoxes ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs

    by Irene Bruna Seu, Shani Orgad ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achieve in their communications and explores how their approach and hopes match or don’t match what the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • "T. rex" and the Crater of Doom

    by Walter Alvarez ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth all around the globe. Terrible environmental disasters ensued, including a giant tsunami, continent ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance

    The Private-Public Policy Nexus in the Global Agora

    by D. Stone ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Diane Stone addresses the network alliances or partnerships of international organisations with knowledge organisations and networks. Moving beyond more common studies of industrial public-private partnerships, she addresses how, and why, international organisations and global policy actors need to incorporate ideas, expertise and scientific opinion into their 'global programmes'. Rather than ... Read more

    $49.49 USD